Technical components of EUROSUR
1. The technical components of EUROSUR shall include national components and a European component.
2. Each national component shall be composed of the national systems and networks used by Member States for the establishment of the situational pictures, reporting, situational awareness, risk analysis, and for supporting the planning and conduct of border control operations, including the infrastructure, organisation, personnel and information resources needed to support it. The interconnections among and between components inside a Member State as well as between Member States shall be part of the national components.
3. The European component shall complement the national components. It shall include the interconnection with the national components. It shall comprise the Communication Network and the systems and networks used by the Agency for the establishment of the situational pictures, reporting, situational awareness, risk analysis, and for supporting the planning and conduct of border control operations.
Technical responsibilities of the Agency
The Agency shall be responsible for managing the European component, which shall include:
(a)
the definition of technical standards for interconnecting networks, systems, applications and equipment of the national and external components with those of the European component;
(b)
the certification process of the networks, systems, applications and equipment with a view to connecting them to EUROSUR, in close cooperation with the responsible authorities;
(c)
the service management of the systems and networks used by the Agency for the establishment of the situational pictures, reporting, situational awareness and risk analysis and for supporting the planning and conduct of border control operations;
(d)
the reporting of the operation, the quality service and the service management aspects of the systems and networks referred to in point (c), as provided for in Article 23;
(e)
the data security of the European component.
Technical responsibilities of the Member States
1. Each Member State shall be responsible for:
(a)
managing its national component, including service management, ensuring the coordination of the connection of national systems and networks used for the establishment of the situational pictures, reporting, situational awareness, risk analysis and for supporting the planning and conduct of border control operations;
(b)
reporting the operation and the quality of service and the service management aspects of the systems and networks referred to in point (a), as provided for in Article 23;
(c)
the compliance with the technical standards established by the Agency;
(d)
the data security of the national component.
2. The national coordination centre shall:
(a)
support the coordination, planning and implementation of the national component;
(b)
contribute to the regular monitoring of the quality of service and quality of data, and report it to the Agency;
(c)
ensure the operational reporting on the systems and networks of the European component.
External components
1. An external component of EUROSUR shall be composed of the systems and networks, including the infrastructure, organisation, personnel and information resources needed to support it, that are not part of EUROSUR and which:
(a)
exchange data and information with EUROSUR;
(b)
support the establishment of a specific situational picture.
2. The interconnection of an external component to EUROSUR belongs to the external component. It shall be specified in the rules establishing the relevant specific situational picture.
Source: EUR-Lex (Publications Office of the EU), © European Union, reuse permitted under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
